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Overview The Dr. John T. Harrington Endowed Fund was created in 2006. It was established by charitable gifts to Tufts Medical Center in honor of Dr. Harrington’s 70th birthday. Through his outstanding career, Dr. Harrington, Dean Emeritus at TUSM, has played a vital role in Tufts Medical Center’s Division of Nephrology. Widely known as a gifted nephrologist who has brought long-term hope to seriously-ill patients, his contributions to the field of Nephrology are many. In the early 1970s, Dr. Harrington developed the hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplant programs. Another of his most notable contributions to medical education and nephrology was his leadership of the “Nephrology Forum” in Kidney International, the official journal of the International Society of Nephrology. The Forum served as an invaluable resource of information and perspective for nephrologists around the globe for over 25 years. The Dr. John T. Harrington Endowed Fund supports a mission that Dr. Harrington holds near and dear – the continuous medical education of physicians, both young and more senior, on the delivery of the highest-quality care possible to patients suffering from kidney disease. Each year, the Harrington Fund supports a Visiting Professor in the Division of Nephrology to participate in the evaluation of the Division’s research training program and to speak at Grand Rounds in the Department of Medicine. In addition, the Harrington Fund can support other educational programs and initiatives within the Division, include innovative research projects that require seed funding and special patient care projects. Gifts to the Fund We are very grateful for the following Founding Gifts for the Dr. John T. Harrington Endowed Fund: Individual Donors Mr. Thomas F. and Mrs. Mary J. Shields Mr. and Mrs. John P. Brogan Drs. Nicolaos and Ourania Madias Dr. and Mrs. Howard B. Garfinkel Dr. and Mrs. James A. Strom Corporate/Institutional Donors Dialysis Clinic, Inc. Tufts University School of Medicine Merck & Co., Inc Visiting Professors 1st Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2007 Nicolaos E. Madias, MD, Visiting Professor St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Shared Primacy of Sodium and Potassium in the Pathogenesis of Hypertension 2nd Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2008 Sharon Moe, MD, Visiting Professor University of Indiana Chronic Kidney Disease: Looking for Bone in All the Wrong Places 3rd Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2009 Eberhard Ritz, MD, Visiting Professor Department of Internal Medicine Ruperto Carola University of Heidelberg, Germany The World Kidney Day: The Kidney and Hypertension 4th Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2010 Bertram Kasiske, MD, Visiting Professor Professor of Medicine. Head of Transplant Nephrology at the University of Minnesota, Director of the Renal Division at Hennepin County Medical Center Guidelines for the Management of Kidney Transplant Patients 5th Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2011 Jonathan Himmelfarb, MD, Visiting Professor Professor of Medicine, Joseph W. Eschbach Endowed Chair for Kidney Research from the University of Washington Division of Nephrology, Seattle WA Kidney Disease as a Public Health Problem: Problems, Progress, and Prospects 6th Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2012 Adeera Levin, MD Visiting Professor Staff nephrologist at St. Paul’s Hospital Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. Global Burden of CKD: Challenges and Opportunities. 7th Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2013 Josef Coresh, MD, PhD Visiting Professor G.W. Comstock Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Medicine Director, George W. Comstock Center for Public Health Research and Prevention and the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Training Program Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD Chronic Kidney Disease — A Challenge for All Ages Fund Updates In 2012, we were very appreciative to receive the following new gifts: Mr. and Mrs. Garnett D. Bailey Mr. William Belben Mrs. Marie Gee Dr. and Mrs. Sol Gittleman Dr. Susan H. Hou Ms. Marie Marchesseault Ms. Tara Mooar Mr. and Mrs. John L. Newton Mr. Norrick Peart Mr. Donald Roaf Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Sampedro Mr. and Mrs. Oden K. Semones Dr. and Mrs. James A. Strom Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Tracy Ms. Pamela J. Yee and Mr. Yosh Ito
